July 25, 2007

Have you ever wished you could know when the slides are being changed when you listen to one of our Special Edition podcasts? Well, now you can courtesy of a new "slidecasting" interface made available from the folks at SlideShare.net. I have now made available synced versions of Blue Box SE#15 and Blue Box SE#16 as shown in the embedded objects below. SE#15 is, to me, a great example of the power of SlideShare's syncing interface. It is about 243 slides in 15 minutes and without the sync, it's not as easy to see how the slides are used to support the story. SE#16 is the much-longer 90-minute workshop that Jonathan, Shawn Merdinger and I did which again shows how the slide sync can be used in a longer setting. In any event, you can check them out in the embedded shows below. First the 15-minute "Black Back Security Review":

And then here our 90-minute workshop:

We would naturally love to hear your feedback about whether you find this useful. We anticipate putting up future presentations in this fashion. What do you think?

Full Disclosure

Jonathan Zar is affiliated with Pingalo and is the Secretary of VOIPSA and member of the Board of Directors.

This is a personal project and neither the Internet Society, Pingalo nor VOIPSA have any formal connection to this podcast. In the interest of transparency we just thought you should know our affiliations.

Why "Blue Box"?

We chose the name "Blue Box" primarily as a nod to the era of phone phreaking in part to illustrate that threats to telephony are not new - they just continue to change and evolve. That and admittedly the name just sounded cool.